Senior Mechanical Engineer

The successful candidate must be enthusiastic and driven to lead engineering project teams and be involved with forward-thinking Mechanical Engineering input and analysis in emerging areas. The aim of the team is to solve mission critical problems for customers and to understand their evolving needs to solve their complex engineering problems through leadership and being a technical specialist.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead and participate in the delivery of projects, with a primary focus on mechanical engineering and analysis;
• Be accountable for the delivery of own work and that of junior members of the team as agreed with, or as part of, the Project Leadership to the required budgets, standards and specifications;
• Produce effective solutions with concise and valid recommendations;
• Ensure that a traceable record is maintained of work conducted;
• Understand and work within a range of requirements and British / ISO standards applicable to the mechanical system in development;
• Ability to represent company in a professional manner to the customer;
• Comply fully with Health, Safety, Security and Quality regimes and customer confidentiality requirements;
• Leading and conduct of mechanical and electro-mechanical design and analysis work to enable delivery of technical work that meet the customer's requirements;
• Generation and development of viable concepts and solutions that meet the customer's requirements;
• Maintain a level of general knowledge and look to develop areas of specific expertise.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Requirements:

• First Degree or higher Degree in a related discipline, e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Electro-Mechanical Engineering;
• 8+ years expected experience in a relevant field;
• Experience leading engineering teams to achieve project aims;
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills to exchange complex information and developed communication and diplomacy skills used to direct / persuade / influence others;
• Ability to use CAD software (ideally Solid Works) to develop concepts communicate and explore ideas and to interrogate designs and obtain required information such as dimensions of features;
• Experience with products such as transmission, electric motors, power generation, robotics and/or military applications
• Able to identify the approach and mathematics required to solve an engineering problem;
• Fluent user of Microsoft Applications (e.g. Excel, Access, Word).
• Willing to travel to other sites and customers where required (expected up to 5% travel time)
• Able to attain MOD SC level clearance

Matchtech acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers and is part of Gattaca Plc.

Gattaca Plc provides support services to Matchtech and may assist with processing your application.